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Show ' you saved me from tnat shark down iy remarked. "She been in th- - caMn in Pngo-Iagthree days now and fancy that by bay." Good gracious, Rook!" exclaimed this time she wont be quite so stubHope in - surprise, how did you get born." across the chasm? "And I think that I will go with I can get Wall, I got sorter tired a waiting you," Olga had rejoined. can." than of out the you more girt fer you two young folks to finish your You dont Morton. said so look Nonsense," I and a around took reunion, what should I find, hidden away, nice wont to go along. Its no trip for a as you please, in the bushes, but the woman. Its a nasty place to land up basket? So I hauls back the block, there on the mesa. Theres no use In hooks on the basket, and sails across taking unnecessary risks." as easy as though I wus on one o Ill take any risks that you will, I have already them there decisively. a You saved my life, nook, m aid tLi?t I am going with yoh.", And I say that youre not." said Hope, holding out his hand, whicWthe old seaman grasped In his horny palm. Morton angrily. The last thing in the I shan't forget it, You came just in world that he desired was to have the nick of time." Olga present during his Interview with Praps It wus just as well that I Cleo, for he knew that were the Ruscome along when I did"," Hook admit- sian woman to suspect his scheme of ted. "Two more strokes o' that ax forcing Cleo to marry him she was and youd been a goner, lootenant quite capable of making thlngi very And his fears And it wus forchnlt thing that before unpleasant indeed. we left the hotel I flipped my fully Justified by her next re In my pocket-- J wuz out o mark. You will either take me with you," breath from climbin' the mountain and my aim wus a leetle unsteady, she told him, or I shall inform the but I made the feller vamoose just the police of some of your recent activities. I fancy that were It known that same." Who was he?" asked Hope. you are the kidnaper of the Burke girl for whom everyone Is searching you It wus Satsumaa would be lucky to escape with your Mahlln.". life. people, I eh?" nope. Mahlln, repeated Theyre a take and dont next Morton. these Californians, The be they it might thought time I meet either of those gentle kindly to having their women stolen. -men," he added grimly, "theres'going . . . Come, come, my friend. You cant put it over on me, as you Amerto be a reckoning." Waal, Miss Cleo," said Hook, turn-In-g icans say. Youre much too anxious to the girl, It certainly does mx to see the girl alone. You will find heart good to find you safe and sound. It a dangerous business to try any with me. We wus pretty .much worried about Come along, then," he snarled, yon fer a time." Youre a perfect dear. Hook," she making the best of the situation, for said, putting her hands affectionately bo was perfectly aware that, were he on the old salt's burly shoulders,' You to persist in his refusal, Olga would saved my life when yon carried me out make good her threat Morton had been telling the literal of Stephanskls cellar just before the bombs exploded, and now you have truth when he asserted that the flight saved Mr. Hopes Ufe. If it were not to the mesa was a hazardous one, for for yon neither of us would be here the stiff north wind that had sprung and that Is why I am going trf tell yon up added materially to the dangers of a very great secret' Mr. Hope and I flying over a mountainous region. are engaged," Twice they were nearly capsized by Jhe shouted, the treacherous air currents which Whoopi Whoop-ee-l I wish you unexpectedly swept up at them from grasping their hands. both, you, lootenant, and you, Miss the canyons, and It was only Morton's Cleo, all the health and happiness and skill as an aviator that saved them. The wind increased in velocity as they good luck la the world. Im good-fer- - I t o Author of "The End of the- Fighting in Flanders, "The Road to Glory "Vive la France etc : ' NovekztJ from the Motion Picture PUy of the Seme Name by the American Film Manufacturing Company. WrU,tH.bM.AIum4n, I saw a SYNOPSIS. ax . , Ilut. Jarvis United Slates Hop black . naval board to and report bis finding on thaInvestigate lnvsnUoa killed," of Hr. Ralph Burk, which servs to Hook saved me," he answered, bring the submarine to a state of per Just as yon fainted, darting." feet Ion. On the trial trip of the Inventor's boat, a Japanese helper Is surprised Thank God I" she whispered. If In the act of examining the mechanism. Hope reports favorably on the new devlre if anything had happened, Jarvis, I but there are others Interested In It. An should have thrown myself over the attempt to burglarise Doctor Burke's cliff after you. Without you Ufe laboratory fails, but later his daughter C'eo finds him murdered in his bedroom. not be worth Uving." would Cleo sells her father's books to get money; Now he was on his knees beside the later she finds a no'e from which she learns that they contain the secret for bunk. mula. Olga IvanofI and Gerald Morton, Do you care for me as much as two spies In search of the formula, attempt to capture Cleo when she cornea that, dear heart?" he asked wonder-ingljfor the books to 8tephanskl, the anarchist. Hope rushes to her aid; Morton shoots at him but the bullet hits a bomb. In the I care for you more than all the cellar, which explodes. Hope and Cleo escape and attend a ball at Mrs. Delmars, world," she answered simply, whose nephew haa two of the missing You are all the world to me, he books. Mahlln, a spy, attempts to steal the books; In the excitement that fellows whispered tenderly, as he drew her tbs books disappear. Mahlln escapes. close- -' I have loved you since the Hop and Cleo take a boat for an Inland out In the bay. The conspirators follow first time I saw yon, that afternoon i other boats. Mahlln and the Jap turn in your father's garden. out the Island light, Morton's boat with It was love at alght for me, too, the countess strikes a stray min In the a After storm and Jarvis." violent bay. Hope Cleo arrive on a strange Island and dis"Will you marry me, Cleo?" cover that the man they hunt Is thera But Mahlln and the Japanese also rearh Yes, she breathed, so softly that the Island and put up a fight for the books. They escape from Hope but re- he could barely hear her, and her turn and dynamite the shack. The- con- arms stole round his neck.Thelr lips spirators fail to harm Hope and Cleo. met and for a long moment there was They manage to reach fiandsboro. where Doctor Owen has one of the books. Each no sound. of the others approach the doctor, but he Held tightly In Hopes arms, her He arranges to refuses to hear-themeet Hop at the hotel with the book. head pillowed upon his shoulder, Cleo Morton poses as Hop and but for an earthquake would have possessed the vol- related bor adventures. She told of ume. Cleo la raptured by Morton and being seized while strolling In the outtaken In his friend's aeroplane to a lonely cabin In the mountains. 8h finds there skirts of Santa Eulalia and dragged the book for which they search. Fortu- into a car and chloroformed; of findnately she gfts a note to Hope, who, with ing herself in the cabin on the ledge Hook, starts to the rescue As he crosses the chasm In the swinging basket Mahlln with Morton, and of his attempt to steals up and chops at the cable with an force her into marrying him. ' The cad I" exploded Hope, clenching his fists. The dirty cur! I wish TENTH INSTALLMENT . I could get my hands on him I One of these days Ill make him pay for his Again Mahllns ax rose and fell; treatment of you, my darling. again It felt through a strand of mire; knew I that you would come for cable sang again the Cleo continued, but of me, course," and quivered. Hope, half way across was I afraid that you might come too the chasm now, and literally dangling between earth and sky, realized his late. I had made up my mind that if he returned and attempted to so much peril. Yet he was helpless. So grad- as lay a finger on me that I 'would ual wag the incline of the cable that kill myself. . . , Oh, Jarvis, Jarhis progress was comparatively slow, vis !" she cried, shuddering, you came he could reach knew before that lie in time, my dear. the opposite cliff Mahlln would have justYou must never think of It again, done his work and he would go plungdear heart," he said soothingly. "The his on meet end the downward to ing A thousand thoughts danger Is over now and youre safe In rocks below. arms." Sashed through his mlnd.-.-T- -i Cleo, jny say that every cloud has a silThey of on marooned the ledge and dying starvation. the secret of the ver lining that out of evil good shall submarine lost to America forever. come," said Cleo, turned suddenly He shut his eyes and his Ups moved from grave to gay. So, If that aw:n prayer. In another" moment it ful man hadnt kidnaped me and would all be over. For a third time brought me here, I should never have this 1" and she triumphantthe ax swung upward . . . and discovered hold book that she had found the ly up A bullet spatthen a shot rang ont! tered against a rock within a In the cupboard. Hope fairly snatched It from her foot of Mahlln. He whirled about hand. and as he did so a second bullet. tore "You dont mean to say," he almost through his coat. Running across the shouted in his excitement, "that youve mesa, a huge navy revolver In his found actually hand, came Hook, firing as he ran. this deserted the formula here. In cabin?" Even as Mahlln looked another bullet found havent the formula itself," he his by" head, whereupon sang she but Ive found where answered, dropped his ax and ran. the formula she showed him and is," An instant later Hope reached the the In father's handher Inscription onto opposite bank. Swinging himself on the Inside of the hack writing was Cleo where ran to he the ledge, cover. lying In a heap. Ills danger and the " Philosophy, " he read slowly. perils through which she had passed every seventh word. too much for her; she had "Tage slxty-onfainted. Lifting her limp and slender It can mean only one thing, of course. form, he bore her Into the cabin and It means that If we will reade every seventh word on page slxty-onof laid her tenderly upon the bunk. some work of philosophy we will have I he Cleo I whispered the formula of Darling father's invenbrokenly. Speak to me. Its Jarvis." tion. But the your is, which philquestion Slowly consciousness returned, ner hundreds of be must There osophy? bosom rose and fell. A tinge of color works on the subject. Can you remember. Cleo, It there was ajwork on philosophy among your fathers r. - a said-Olg- roller-coasters- ." six-shoot- er side-partne- j 1 r, donble-dealln- d imposing edifice that his Imagination had erected had suddenly collapsed. Cleos escape ended his scheme of forcibly marrying her and thus obtaining possession of the fortune which she had inherited from Calvin And, as though this Montgomery. were not enough, the secret of the submarine, on finding which he had staked everything, had slipped through his very fingers and was now, he was convinced, in the hands of his rival, the man whom he hated more than any other Jarvis Hope. The lavish expenditures he had made in prosecuting the search had almost exhausted his means. Gerald Morton was a desperate and a dangerous man. Well," demanded Olga, when her anger had somewhat subsided, "what are we going to do about it? There Is nothing to be gained by sulking like disappointed children." We are going to follow them, said Morton grimly, "rm going to get that formula if I have to kill them both." That," said Olga approvingly, is the way to talk. Let us be going. g , tight-stretche- i-- j 5 d Their mutual jealousies and suspicions forgotten in the loss of the formula, they recrossed the chasm and climbed into the aeroplane. A moment later and, with a roar from Its propellers. It rolled forward across the mesa and soared Into the air. Daring their brief stay In the cabin, however, the wind, already dangerously high, had risen to a gale, and as their craft, leaving the comparatively,, sheltered mesa, climbed skyward, it was buffeted ass ship Is buffeted bythewaves. But it was impossible to return to the mesa now, and to attempt to descend elsewhere was bat to Invite disaster. The driving force of Its powerful notwithstanding, the aeroplane was as helpless as a skiff in a storm. Yet so masterly was Mortons driving, so perfect his of hand and brain, that it seemed as though his skill would triumph over the elements and that he would succeed in reaching the plain in safety. But suddenly a windsquall leaped ont at them from a canyon over which they were passing; the frail machine reeled and quivered before the blow, and, despite Morton's desperate efforts, turned sideways, capsized and plunged like a wounded bird Into the gulf below. - An hour or so later a party of returning to their ranch after rounding up a bunch of strays In the hills, saw on the rocky slope of the canyon s tangled mass of canvas, wood, and steel. Galloping up, they perceived, half burled beneath the wreckage of the aeroplane, the bodies of Olga and Morton. "Theyre still breathing, boys, pronounced one of the punchers when he and his companions had succeeded In extricating the Inanimate forms. Theyre - in pretty- - bad - shape. The girls ribs are all stove In and Tm afraid the follows cracked his skull. Bill, you chase down to the rafich and bring up the spring wagon. Better put in a mattress and plenty of blankets,, and bring along whisky. Send one of the boys off to town for the doctor and tell him to get a move on, too. -- These people are hurt mighty bad. ... 'I e; had-bee- boots?" .I think there was," a moment's reflection. she said after Yes, I am certain of it. Daddy would sometimes read aloud from It in the evenings. But I havent the least idea what its title was or who wrote it !Then I'm afraid that we still have a long search ahead of us. There are stlU books for us to trace; tho philosophy may he the last oae that we find." Ive more good news for you, said I noticed that this work on Cleo. metallurgy is In two volumes, and, as I felt sure that Mr. Patten must hare bought thera both, I searched the cabin and discovered the other volume lying under the bunk. There Is nothing in It, though; Ive gone through it carefully. I had plenty of time for reading here, she added, laughing. You poor child," said Hope, kissing her upturned lips, it makes me shudder to think of the perils through It has been worth all the perils, dear," Cleo answered softly, "because they have given mp you. Now that we have each other X dont care if we never find the secret? the submaIs t it Really You, Jarvis, or Am i Dreaming?" Invaded the alabaster of her cheeks. Uer eyelids fluttered. She gave a moan which ended In a frenzied wall of Jarvis! Jarvis I" Then her eyes opened and she locked up into the face of the man she loved. Is It really you. Jarvis," she murmured, or am I dreaming? I saw you ,wlnricg on that dreadful cable. . i rine.""" - - Again there fell a silence in the cabin. Im afraid we must be going, sweetheart," said Hope, at last, or Hook will think that something has happened to us. Weve kept the poor old fellow waiting over there for nearly an hour. And he saved my life, too." It only makes us square then, boomed a familiar voice at the cabin door. I aint fergot how loo-tenant- a. - we hot-heade- er they approached the cabin. Morton Mow of hi billy, turned to assist MaV-ti- n, who was engaged In a desperate flung open the door. 1th Hope. he devil!" Etruggle Shes escaped, the little I Run!" shoutei I Geo when nrtich Run, as I feared the latsnarled. saw the basket. She had help from ter. Get help!" Hardly were the words out of his outside, of course. spyhowever, than the Japaness exclaimed mouth, Olga, Wbuts this; books. two watching on tahle the the hisopportunlty, dealt hii-7 ing blow on the back of the head terrific Merciful heaven !" she cried, pointwith a of smothered groan, the on the and, flyleaf ing to Pattens name one of them. Theyre the very books young officer sank to the ground. Ail we have been looking for! How did this Geo saw, but not until Manila Started toward her did she realize that they get here?" have," Idea more no than you Ive I said Morton, utterly- stupefied. didnt see a sign of any books when I brought the girl here. Of all the hell-Js- h To think that I coincidences ! should have stumbled on the cabin of the very man we have been trying to find and not have known it!"t You may well call it a hellish coincidence," she snapped, holding up the volume from which Hope had cut the key to the code.- - This tells the story. The naval officer that you are always sneering at has been too smart for you. He has not only found his way here and rescued the girl, but be has evidently discovered the secret of the submarine. You Idiot You blockhead! You fool!" she screamed,' flarYou bad ing Into a sudden passion. the secret almost in your hands and you have let it get away from us! Was there ever such Incredible Imbecility?" But Morton was too stunned by the disaster to reply to her taunts. The AA 11 s . 1-- en-gin- . K'.v A' : -- - , es -- jTrrkurri S&Jl, Made the Passage Acroee the Chasm in Ikl the Basket old sailor, hut nothin, when your paw died. Miss GeoLsez to myself, ses I, Doctor Burke took care o you when you wux 'down and out Hook Barnacle, and now hes gone its up to you to look' after his daughter. I aint made' a very good Miss Cleo, but I done the best I knew how." Standing on tiptoe, so that her lips were level with Hopes ear, Cleo whispered something to him. Then, with flaming face, she fled from the cabin. She says, Hook," said Hope, that If we ever have a boy hUrulddle name cow-punche- gar-dee- n, shall be Barnacle." The book which contained the key to the code beingtoo bulky to be carried easily, Hop contented himself with cutting off that portion of the book which contained the annotation. I ought to leave some WQrd for this fellow Tatten," he remarked. Its hardly fair to cutup hlk book and not let him know who did it" - - - So he scrawled in. pencil on the Inside of the front cover: Mr. Patten I have taken the liberty of cutting out a message which I found in this book. If you wgl communicate with me at the Shaftsbury hotel, isanta Eulalia, I shall be glad to reimburse you. -- So JARVIS HOPE." Now," he remarked, we must be starting. We have three or four hours of hard walking ahead of us and we must be out of the mountains before it re- Cileo, Hope, and Hook, slowly making their way down the mountainside, little suspected that, following them like bloodhounds, were Mahlin and When the three la front paused they paused also, taking the utmost palqs to keep thexsselves concealed; Sat-sum- a. gets dark." had maThough Mahlina .waa terially veakened.the,. xable, ehh strong enough. tab.suppart,oaft..pe j byson at a time, Geo, Hook, and nope standing here and arguing about It," making the passage across the chasm said Olga acidly. Suppose we go in the basket in turn. Then, turning across and see If shes still there. their-back- s After you then said Morton. "The on the' spot where they had found so much peril and so much basket unfits, my lady." of happiness, they set out on the long Thank you, no,"; she replied Afand arduous trip down the mountains. ter you. Pm taking no chances of hav. ing you maroon me on the ledge the About the time that the three were way you claim to have marooned the Youll go first, if leaving the cabin on the ledge, Morton Burke girl. and Olga were preparing to visit the please, my friend." You seem to he obsessed with susmountains in the1 aeroplane. And welcome no means a was of my motives, dear countess," paspicions by Olga sneered Morton, "but anything to senger. I think that HI fly up to the mesa please." Stepping into the basket, he this afternoon and have a talk with slid across, whereupon Olga hauled It the Burke girl," Morton had careless- - back and crossed la her turn. Togeth ax-strok- Jl that when Morton and Olga gained consciousness, days later, they found themselves in a ranch-hous- e in a mountain valley, with cowboys nursing them back to health. - forward, Mahlin and the Japanese did the same. Their progress was slow, however, for the country' they were traversing was extremely rougt, seamed with gorges and broken hy unt expected outcroppings of way down the mountain the trail that they were following entered a winding gorge, so narrow that they were compelled to walk In single file. As they emerged from It, with Geo somewhat in the lead, Mahlln and Satsuma, who had made a detour so as to Intercept them, sprang from a rock behind which they were croucnlng. So unexpected was the attack that Hope and nook were taken completely by surprise. Batsuma, felling Hook with a single rock.--Par- I - Mads the Fellow Vamoose, sm"' , Just ths she was powerless to aid her friends and that her own life was in imminent peril. 1 Then, with Mahlln barely a score of yards behind, she turned and ran like a frightened deer. Satsuma stopped only long enough to rifle Hopes pockets, taking from them his pocketbook, his papers, and the piece of the containing the key tp the code. Straight down the mountain' slope the chase led, over rocks, in and out of gullies, through underbrush and streams. Sometimes Cleo was out of sight of her pursuers, sometimes they were only a few yards behind. But she was young and strong and terror lent her wings, and she would have made her escape had her fUght not been abruptly.. halted by. a deep gulch which formed a fissure la the earth at right angles to the course she was pursuing. On the edge of it she stopped, trembling. Though the opposite bank of the gulch, which was was hot too . eomparatlvelx-narrosteep to scale, the side on which she stood fell away so precipitously that It was Impossible- for her to clamber down It, and, as It was a half a hundred feet to the bottom, to drop was equally out of the question. Like a hunted animal she glanced about her. Her retreat was enf iff by Mahlin and Satsuma, who were rapidly approaching. She must act quickly If she was to escape their dutches. All at once she spied a great tree, a veritable monarch of the forest, which was growing from the bank on which she stood at such an angle that it partially overhung the gulch. Hanging from the tree was a wild grapevine of extraordinary length and thickness the largest, In fact, that she had ever seen. It was as thick as- an Inch rope. Why, then, would It not serve as a rope on which she could swing to safety? Pulling on the hanging' vine, she found that It was firmly anchored and that it was apparently strong enough to bear her weight It was a hazardous plan, she knew; the chances were all in favor of the vine breaking and of her bebelow. But ing dashed upon such a fate was better, far better, she felt than to be at the mercy of the human fiends who were closing In on her. Jerking the vine free of the trunk, she grasped It firmly with both hands as, whea a "Child,' she" had grasped the swin grope in the school . back so as playground. Stepping-wel- l to get the Impetus f a run, she sped forward abd. Just as she felt the touch of Mahllns outstretched hand, her feet spurned the earth and she swung out Into space like a human pendulum. book-cov- er -- w' - - the-rock- s -- -- (TO BE CONTINUED.) , Bird of Mystery. One of the most curious and interesting of the unsolved problems relating to bird migration is connected with the chimney swift, more often called the chimney swallow." a very common and bird of the eastern United States. After the breedinsea- well-know- n &on.th.Seck& drlf concentrate in vast numbers on the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Then they disappear, as completely as If they hibernated under the water 01 In the mud, according to the old beliel regarding birds In general. Ye last week in March they appear again on the Golf coast. Their hiding place doling the Intervening five months Is still the swifts secret. Distraction, My dentist but sometimes tells me fanny, stories I fail to see the point." Maybe there Isnt any point." Oh. yes there is, but at those pal tlcuiar times my thoughts are centered 00 the Doityt of his drill." |